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3 Descend, celestial Dove,

With all thy quickening powers;
Disclose a Saviour's love,

And bless the sacred hours:
Then shall my soul new life obtain,
Nor Sabbaths be enjoyed in vain.

Hayward, in Dobell's Selection.

Title: "Sabbath Morning." Only one word has been changed. The author wrote the last line: "Nor Sabbaths be indulg'd in vain."

Dobell's New Selection, 1806, was a book of special value in its day. It contained many new hymns by various authors. Some of them are still in common use. "Hayward" is simply a name. Nothing is known of this author.

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2 On thee, at the creation,

The light first had its birth;
On thee, for our salvation,
Christ rose from depths of earth;
On thee, our Lord, victorious,
The Spirit sent from heaven;
And thus on thee, most glorious,
A triple light was given.

3 To-day on weary nations
The heavenly manna falls;
To holy convocations

The silver trumpet calls,
Where gospel light is glowing
With pure and radiant beams,
And living water flowing
With soul-refreshing streams.

4 New graces ever gaining
From this our day of rest,
We reach the rest remaining
To spirits of the blest;
To Holy Ghost be praises,
To Father, and to Son;

The Church her voice upraises

To thee, blest Three in One.
Christopher Wordsworth.

"Sunday" is the title which this hymn bears in the author's volume titled The Holy Year; or, Hymns for Sundays and Holydays, 1862, where it appears as the opening hymn. The fact that the author is a nephew of William Wordsworth, the poet, adds interest to this hymn. The two omitted stanzas are:

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2 While we pray for pardoning grace, Through the dear Redeemer's name, Show thy reconciled face,

Take away our sin and shame;
From our worldly cares set free,
May we rest this day in thee.

3 Here we come thy name to praise;
May we feel thy presence near:
May thy glory meet our eyes,
While we in thy house appear:
Here afford us, Lord, a taste
Of our everlasting feast.

4 May thy gospel's joyful sound
Conquer sinners, comfort saints;
Make the fruits of grace abound,
Bring relief for all complaints:
Thus may all our Sabbaths prove,
Till we join the church above.

John Newton.

From Olney Hymns, 1779. The author's title was "Saturday Evening." Several lines have been changed to adapt it to Sunday singing. One stanza, the second, has been omitted:

Mercies multiplied each hour,

Through the week our praise demand; Guarded by Almighty power,

Fed and guided by his hand; Though ungrateful we have been, Only made returns of sin.

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NOTHER six days' work is done;
Another Sabbath is begun:
Return, my soul, enjoy thy rest,

Improve the day thy God hath blest.

2 O that our thoughts and thanks may rise, As grateful incense, to the skies;

And draw from Christ that sweet repose
Which none but he that feels it knows!

3 This heavenly calm within the breast
Is the dear pledge of glorious rest
Which for the Church of God remains,
The end of cares, the end of pains.

4 In holy duties let the day,

In holy comforts, pass away;
How sweet, a Sabbath thus to spend,
In hope of one that ne'er shall end!

Joseph Stennett.

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To show thy love by morning light,
And talk of all thy truth by night.

2 Sweet is the day of sacred rest;

No mortal cares shall seize my breast;
O may my heart in tune be found,
Like David's harp of solemn sound.

3 When grace has purified my heart,
Then I shall share a glorious part;
And fresh supplies of joy be shed,
Like holy oil, to cheer my head.

4 Then shall I see, and hear, and know
All I desired or wished below;
And every power find sweet employ
In that eternal world of joy.

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3 My heart shall triumph in my Lord,
And bless his works, and bless his word:
Thy works of grace how bright they shine!
How deep thy counsels! how divine!

4 Fools never raise their thoughts so high;
Like brutes they live, like brutes they die;
Like grass they flourish till thy breath
Blasts them in everlasting death.

6 Sin, my worst enemy before,
Shall vex my eyes and ears no more;
My inward foes shall all be slain,

Nor Satan break my peace again.

The first couplet of the third stanza has been transposed and changed. Watts

wrote:

But I shall share a glorious part
When grace hath well refined my heart.

The original of this hymn contains fourteen stanzas, of which the above are the first, tenth, eleventh, and thirteenth. The author was pastor of a Seventh-Day Bap-lication, 1719.

It is not otherwise altered. Date of pub

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HE dawn of God's dear Sabbath

Breaks o'er the earth again,

As some sweet summer morning
After a night of pain;

It comes as cooling showers
To some exhausted land,
As shade of clustered palm trees
'Mid weary wastes of sand.

2 And we would bring our burden
Of sinful thought and deed,
In thy pure presence kneeling,
From bondage to be freed;
Our heart's most bitter sorrow
For all thy work undone;
So many talents wasted!

So few bright laurels won!

3 And with that sorrow mingling,
A steadfast faith, and sure,
And love so deep and fervent,
That tries to make it pure:
In his dear presence finding

The pardon that we need;
And then the peace so lasting-
Celestial peace indeed!

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And own, as grateful sacrifice,

The songs which from thy servants rise.

2 Thine earthly Sabbaths, Lord, we love;
But there's a nobler rest above;
To that our laboring souls aspire,
With ardent hope and strong desire.

3 No more fatigue, no more distress,
Nor sin nor hell, shall reach the place;
No sighs shall mingle with the songs,
Which warble from immortal tongues.

4 No rude alarms of raging foes,

No cares to break the long repose;
No midnight shade, no clouded sun,
But sacred, high, eternal noon.

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It is found in Hymns Founded on Various Texts in the Holy Scriptures, by P. Doddridge; edited by Job Orton, 1755. In the last line of the first stanza the author wrote: "The songs which from the Desert rise." In the last line of the second stanza the original is: "With ardent Pangs of strong Desire." The third line of the third stanza originally read: "Groans to mingle with the Songs."

One stanza, the fifth, has been omitted:

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2 Night her solemn mantle spreads
O'er the earth as daylight fades;
All things tell of calm repose,
At the holy Sabbath's close.

4 Still the Spirit lingers near,
Where the evening worshiper
Seeks communion with the skies,
Pressing onward to the prize.

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HYMNS TO THE TRINITY.

C. M.

THOUSAND oracles divine

Their common beams unite, That sinners may with angels join To worship God aright.

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also was suggested by a passage in the Night Thoughts, as will be seen at a glance by comparing the last line in the stanza just quoted with the last of the following four lines from Dr. Young:

This theme is man's, and man's alone; Their vast appointments reach it not: they see On earth a bounty not indulged on high, And downward look for Heaven's superior praise!

Charles Wesley, writing in July, 1754, says: "I began once more transcribing Young's Night Thoughts. No writings but the inspired are more useful to me."

Not only were these individual verses inspired by Dr. Young, but his Hymns on the Trinity were really suggested by a volume by Rev. William Jones, of the Established Church, titled The Catholic Doctrine of a Trinity proved by above an hundred short & clear arguments, expressed in the terms of Holy Scripture. It was first published in 1754, and in a new and enlarged edition in 1767. Following the order and using the Scriptures quoted in this book, Wesley wrote a hymn for each. That Wesley's phraseology was sometimes derived from this volume will be seen by comparing the first verse of the hymn above with the following sentence taken from the preface of Mr. Jones's book: "In the fourth and last chapter the passages of the Scripture have been laid together and made to unite their beams in one common center, the Unity of the Trinity."

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2 O Holy Father, who hast led thy children In all the ages, with the fire and cloud, Through seas dry-shod, through weary wastes bewildering,

To thee, in reverent love, our hearts are bowed.

3 O Holy Jesus, Prince of Peace and Saviour,

To thee we owe the peace that still prevails,

Stilling the rude wills of men's wild behavior,

And calming passion's fierce and stormy gales.

4 O Holy Ghost, the Lord and the Life-giver, Thine is the quickening power that gives increase;

From thee have flowed, as from a pleasant river,

Our plenty, wealth, prosperity, and peace.

5 O Triune God, with heart and voice adoring, Praise we the goodness that doth crown our days;

Pray we that thou wilt hear us, still imploring

Thy love and favor, kept to us always.
William C. Doane.

2 Thousands, tens of thousands, stand, Spirits blest, before thy throne, Speeding thence at thy command, And, when thy behests are done, Singing everlastingly

To the blessed Trinity.

3 Cherubim and seraphim

Veil their faces with their wings;
Eyes of angels are too dim
To behold the King of kings,
While they sing eternally
To the blessèd Trinity.

4 Thee apostles, prophets thee,
Thee the noble martyr band,
Praise with solemn jubilee;

Thee, the church in every land;
Singing everlastingly

To the blessed Trinity.

5 Hallelujah! Lord, to thee,

Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
Godhead one, and persons three,
Join we with the heavenly host,
Singing everlastingly

To the blessed Trinity.

Christopher Wordsworth.

Title: "Trinity Sunday." From the author's Holy Year, London, 1862. The original has eight stanzas; these are verses one, three, four, five, and eight, unaltered. This is a singable hymn that any congregation can use with joy and profit. It is

This was written in 1886. In reply to a letter inquiring as to the origin of this hymn, Bishop Doane replied as follows in based upon, and was no doubt inspired by,

a letter dated August 20, 1907:

The hymn to which you refer was written to be sung at the bicentenary of the charter of Albany as a city. Of course it was not exactly in its present shape then, but was somewhat changed in form when the committee decided to put it in our Church Hymnal. This is not a matter of very great importance, but gives you the facts about which you ask.

Bishop Doane has given us here a most valuable hymn to the Trinity, each of the three Persons of the Godhead being addressed in succeeding stanzas.

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